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File upload example using busboy with express
var path = require('path');
var fs = require('fs');
var os = require('os');
var express = require('express');
var app = express();
var Busboy = require('busboy');
app.get('/', function (req, res) {
res.send('<html><head></head><body>\
<form method="POST" enctype="multipart/form-data">\
<input type="text" name="textfield"><br />\
<input type="file" name="filefield"><br />\
<input type="submit">\
</form>\
</body></html>');
res.end();
});
// accept POST request on the homepage
app.post('/', function (req, res) {
var busboy = new Busboy({ headers: req.headers });
busboy.on('file', function(fieldname, file, filename, encoding, mimetype) {
var saveTo = path.join('.', filename);
console.log('Uploading: ' + saveTo);
file.pipe(fs.createWriteStream(saveTo));
});
busboy.on('finish', function() {
console.log('Upload complete');
res.writeHead(200, { 'Connection': 'close' });
res.end("That's all folks!");
});
return req.pipe(busboy);
});
var server = app.listen(3000, function () {
var host = server.address().address
var port = server.address().port
console.log('Example app listening at http://%s:%s', host, port)
});
@sachinshah114
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Hello ,
Thank you for share this code to public. Can you please add one more example of upload a multiple files ? I need the array of buffer and then I have to upload files in aws s3. After that I have to also save the images name in mongoDB also. Thanks in advanced. :) :) :)

@PagarVM
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PagarVM commented May 13, 2020

The finish event of busboy may be triggered before the writestream has ended, so the "console.log('Upload complete');" is wrong.

@vishwasagarwal
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Hello ,
Thank you for share this code to public. Can you please add one more example of upload a multiple files ? I need the array of buffer and then I have to upload files in aws s3. After that I have to also save the images name in mongoDB also. Thanks in advanced. :) :) :)

you can upload multiple file with the help of multer

@shobhitg
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shobhitg commented Jun 26, 2020

LOl, although I have no idea what Busboy is and when and why I wrote this code. I guess I must be responding to some question on StackOverflow.

@amindadgar
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I tried your code and I'm getting this error
TypeError: Busboy is not a constructor

@mresmaeili
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@amindadgar I'm getting the same error, any updates?

@stenes90
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I am getting same error as well
TypeError: Busboy is not a constructor

@magnum6actual
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Same error for me: Busboy is not a constructor

@magnum6actual
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magnum6actual commented Dec 28, 2021

Figured this out. Busboy is not a constructor - perhaps the code has changed since this example was created. To get this to function, you have to modify as:

const busboyCons = require('busboy');
...
var busboy = busboyCons({ headers: req.headers });

@ashminiw
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must be faith that this was posted so recently! thanks this helped me a ton :) i am working on a firebase project right now using busboy with a similar code. when my files upload, instead of the .png format, i get a .Object object extension instead. Anyone have any idea what I'm doing wrong?

@mingybopeep
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the busboy package had a major version update earlier this year. I was having issues with +v1. I reverted to v0.4 and it's now working

@magnum6actual @stenes90 @mresmaeili @amindadgar

@vedantnd111
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don't use new keyword while creating busboy instance
wrong:
const bb=new busboy({headers:req.headers})
right:
const bb=busboy({headers:req.headers})

According to current version

@orivelton
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I updated to "connect-busboy": "0.0.3" and it's worked for me.

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